Mixosauria

Mixosauria
Mixosauria
Temporal range: 230–210 Ma
Contectopalatus atavus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Subclass: ?Diapsida
Superorder: Ichthyopterygia
Order: Ichthyosauria
Infraorder: Mixosauria
Montani, 1999
Genera

Wimaniidae Maisch, 2010

  • Wimanius Maisch and Matzke, 1998

Mixosauridae Baur, 1887

The mixosaurs were an early group of ichthyosaurs, living between 250 and 230 million years ago, during the Triassic period.[1] Fossils of mixosaurs have been found all over the world: China, Timor, Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Spitsbergen, Switzerland, Svalbard, Canada, Alaska, and Nevada.

Cladogram based on Motani (1999),[2] Maisch and Matzke (2000),[3] and Jiang, Schmitz, Hao & Sun (2006),[4] with clade and generic names following Maisch (2010):[1]

Mixosauria
Wimaniidae

Wimanius

Mixosauridae
Mixosaurinae

Barracudasauroides



Mixosaurus cornalianus


Mixosaurus kuhnschnyderi



Phalarodontinae

Contectopalatus



Phalarodon callawayi


Phalarodon fraasi





References

  1. ^ a b Michael W. Maisch (2010). "Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria – the state of the art". Palaeodiversity 3: 151–214. http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/03/Palaeodiversity_Bd3_Maisch.pdf. 
  2. ^ Motani, R. (1999). "Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19: 472–495. 
  3. ^ Michael W. Maisch and Andreas T. Matzke (2000). "The Ichthyosauria". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde: Serie B 298: 159. http://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stuttgart/pdf/b_pdf/B298.pdf. 
  4. ^ Da-Yong Jiang, Lars Schmitz, Wei-Cheng Hao, and Yuan-Lin Sun (2006). "A new mixosaurid Ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (1): 60–69. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[60:ANMIFT]2.0.CO;2. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26%5B60%3AANMIFT%5D2.0.CO%3B2. 
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